Definition of Transubstantiation

Definition of Transubstantiation

2. Noun. (context: Christianity in Roman Catholic dogma) The doctrine holding that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are transformed into the body and blood of Jesus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Transubstantiation

1.
1. A change into another substance.
2. The doctrine held by Roman Catholics, that the bread and wine in the Mass is converted into the body and blood of Christ; distinguished from consubstantiation, and impanation.
Origin: LL. Transubstantiatio: cf. F. Transsubstantiation.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)

Literary usage of Transubstantiation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Alexander James William Morrison (1852)"The sternly-pronounced doctrine of transubstantiation, in the sense of Radbert—the
milder view of those who were not satisfied with ..."

2.The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1852)"... to think they have proved their doctrine of Transubstantiation out of the
fathers also, if the fathers tell us that 'bread is changed out of his nature ..."

3.The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)"We do not think that Archbishop Egbert did know any thing of the error of
transubstantiation, and we believe that he held the true Catholic doctrine of the ..."

5.The Table-talk of John Selden by John Selden (1860)"Transubstantiation. HE Fathers using to speak Rhetorically, ... There is no
greater Argument (though not used) against Transubstantiation than the Apostles ..."